Anything you’ve ever posted online—a cringey tweet, an ancient blog post, an enthusiastic restaurant review, or a blurry Instagram selfie—has almost assuredly been gobbled up and used as part of the ...

We are living in an extractive data economy. Every day, people generate a firehose of new data on hundreds of apps and services. These data are often sold by data brokers indiscriminately, embedded ...

Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and ...

Video by The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Books play a crucial role in the training of generative-AI systems. Their long, thematically consistent paragraphs provide information about how to construct long ...

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...

Tens of thousands of explicit AI-generated images, including AI-generated child sexual abuse material, were left open and accessible to anyone on the internet, according to new research seen by WIRED.

The early stage defense bill draft would create an internal list of contractor clients that assist the U.S. military in its secret operations “to facilitate deconfliction and risk assessment.” ...